Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, is to build a new 300,000 tonne waste-to-energy plant in partnership with Bee’ah, Sharjah’s integrated environmental and waste management company. The news follows the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Masdar and Bee’ah in 2016 to collaborate in the development of new energy projects. Owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, Masdar works to advance the development, commercialisation and deployment of clean energy technologies and solutions.

To be built in Sharjah, the new waste-to-energy plant will incinerate up to 37.5 tonnes of solid waste per hour and produce 30 megawatts (MW) of power. Together with other waste-to-energy projects, the new plant is expected to help Bee’ah to generate a total of 90 MW of power, which will be supplied to Sharjah’s electricity grid.

Bee’ah’s Waste Management Center is currently the largest facility for material recovery in the Middle East and the third largest such facility in the world with the annual capacity to process 500,000 tonnes of solid waste. Facilities at the WMC include contains a material recovery facility, a construction and demolition waste recycling facility, a tyre recycling facility, an electronic waste dismantling and processing facility and other facilities including a car bodies recycling and shredding facility and a compost plant.